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decrees had not been published, yet new difficulties and wars would have been ever ready to break out; and that the complete overthrow of the fanatical Romish powers was indispensable to the prosperity and people of the country, and the security of free institutions. He declared civil and religious liberty now firmly and permanently established, and said, that Bolivar was devoted to the object of securing it to South America, and was only prevented by the overthrow of his power. Gen. M. added, that it had been the chief aim of his life to accomplish this great object, and that he now considers it attained in New Granada.

He wishes to see another grand and favorite design of Bolivar realized, viz., the combination of all the American Republics in a league, for the defence of their common principles and liberties; and therefore strongly urges a new Panama Congress, like that proposed about thirty years ago, which was never carried into effect. It is probable that the capital of New Granada, (now the United States of Colombia,) will be removed from Bogota to Panama; and in that case new and important facilities will be afforded for the attainment of that grand design.

Our readers will perceive that the present state of things in that interesting country is highly favorable for the introduction of useful influences from abroad, and particularly for the operations of the missions of the American & Foreign Christian Union. We might add many facts and reflections on this subject: but will conclude with a brief extract or two from General Mosquera's Address to the National Convention :

"Recognizing, as I do, that the human species was created in different races to inhabit this world, with natural peculiarities adapted to the different positions which we find in the intertropical, Austral, Boreal, and Polar zones, all of which ought to be peopled and susceptible of civilization; and that, in our Republic, men are found from those different latitudes, we should establish a government that will recognize equal rights and duties for all intelligent beings, and avoid the collisions which have occurred in various countries, where a difference has been made in order that one race might dominate over another, by infringing that natural law which allows the right of nations to self-government, by means of democratic institutions." He adds, that this principle must be adhered to in Colombia, and thus an example given to the United States of South America, who are exposed to destruction in consequence of the violation of it. We must add one extract more: "Society does not require, for its existence, corporations of convents, nor can it subsist with them, if such corporations require mortmain estates to support them. The land belongs to all, and every one has a Corporations have not a right to say: 'This part of the public wealth belongs to us, and shall never belong to any

right to acquire it.

others but ourselves, who have withdrawn from the pomps and vanities of the world, to lock ourselves up and to pray to God for you, who ought to be our servants, because that is the will of God." "In 1834 I was the first member of the Granadian Congress, who proclaimed religious liberty. The triumph of it was complete in 1853, when Congress recognized the constitutional doctrine."

LETTER FROM GREECE.

THE following article is from Dr. Kolopothakes, Editor of the paper at Athens called the "Star of the East."

To the Editor of The Christian World:

ATHENS, April 2d, 1863.

DEAR SIR-Greece at this moment occupies so much the attention of European diplomacy, that a few words concerning it will not, I hope, be unacceptable to your readers. You are aware of the unanimous election of Prince Alfred of England as the future King of Greece, and of the refusal of the English gov ernment to consent to this unexpected and universal manifestation of esteem on the part of the Greek nation towards England. Since that the English govern. ment has been busy in search of another candidate, and after some failures, she has succeeded in securing the second son of Prince Christian, of Denmark, who consents to become the King of the Greeks, and against whom the other two protecting powers, France and Russia, raise no objection.

This intelligence was communicated to our Government by the Hon. Mr. Elliott-the Ambassador Extraordinary from England-on the 17th ult., and through the Prime Minister, Mr. Valvi, to the National Assembly-which immediately, on the motion of the said gentleman, declared him unanimously, by rising, King of Greece, under the title "George I., King of the Greeks." This declaration was followed by repeated and continued cheers and acclamations of "Vive George Ist, King of the Greeks." The Assembly voted also that a dox. ology should be sung in the Cathedral, and the whole country should be illuminated for three successive nights. It has also voted the following resolutions, and elected a deputation of three of its own members, who are to proceed to Denmark for the purpose of offering the crown of Greece to the said Prince, together with the resolutions.

(1) The 2d Greek National Assembly, at Athens, declare unanimously the Prince George Christian William of Denmark, second son of Prince Christian of Denmark, constitutional King of the Greeks, under the title "George I., King of the Greeks."

(2) His lawful successors must profess the Anatolic orthodox faith.

(3) A deputation of three, chosen of the members of the Assembly, shall proceed to Copenhagen, and in the name of the Greek nation proffer the crown to the Prince.

I regret to see that in their great haste to declare him King of Greece, the Assembly did not stop to consider the consequences of the second article in the

as not his place for such an important document; still I he would strike at this point! However, the thing is believe that He who has overruled all things for the good will overrule this also for the same end and His own glo: is impossible for me to describe the joy manifested throu iers of all arms, the National Guard, and thousands of citi both sexes thronged at the platza of the Constitution, wh Palace, and passed before the Prime Minister and the onal Assembly, who stood on the stairs. In the evening Dus national anthems in various squares of the town-the ated, and the people paraded the streets rejoicing! I g Otho and Amelia were present to see what they could ha es, and what they have lost by their foolishness and narrov happy they might have made both the nation and the ght to promote its welfare and interests.

THE BIBLE-WOMEN IN LONDO VE have received, at different times, letters from indi uiries about the Bible-women in London. As the s ch interest, we give its history, and some of the w iety from an article in "The Work of the Christian HE origin of these missions was in the district of St. Giles. e were whole streets in that neighborhood (for example Cha e), where it is believed that there was scarcely one family was not a drunkard. When a sinking population has r th in the abyss of sin and misery, the women become far wo espect of drunkenness. They resort daily to the gin-shop spirits, and to drown their recollections of the dirt and ch they live. They then become quarrelsome and wasteful men drink in order to escape from the remembrance of th y can imagine, who has not seen it, the misery of these

As for the filth of the houses and of the children, the rags in which they are 'dressed,' the numbers in which they sleep together in the same room, and the general squalor caused by the mode of living-these also must be seen in order to be understood. It would scarcely be believed that human nature in this country could sink so low, or that people could live at all under such miserable physical conditions.

In the district of St. Giles, Scripture-readers and City Missionaries had been some time at work. A woman of good abilities, who had been bred from child hood in the midst of this fearful neighborhood, was converted by God's blessing on the reading of a Bible, given to her by Mr. M'Cree, one of the local missionaries. She soon began to think what she could do to help here and there a poor person round her, though she was poor enough herself. Sometimes she offered a little assistance to a woman in her confinement, or when any of the children were ill. Trouble is a door which the Lord opens for his servants into the lowest haunts of misery and vice.

At this very juncture, God in his providence had brought to reside near Brunswick Square a lady whose time had been much devoted from early life to the work of Bible-circulation, and who had recently prepared, at the request of the Bible Society, a well-known Jubilee volume for the young, entitled, THE BOOK AND ITS STORY. Very soon after her settlement in London, she began to consider the degradation of the poor, as she observed them in St. Giles's, and resolved to attempt the diffusion of God's Word in those dark and desolate homes. She soon found that such haunts of vice and violence were not suitable spheres of labor for young ladies of the ordinary type of 'Bible Collectors.' The idea struck her that if she could discover a person of good character and decided piety, and to whom the district was already familiar, she might be employed in visiting the people, and in selling Bibles to the poor. She inquired for such an individual. Mr. M'Cree at once recommended the good woman above referred to. The engagement was made, Mrs. Ranyard undertaking to superintend the movements of this humble agent; and the Bible Society willingly providing for it, at her suggestion, by the payment of 10s. a week.

From this small seed sprang the goodly tree which now begins to overshadow the whole of London with its branches. A very short experience sufficed to satisfy the original experimenter that a MISSING LINK' in the chain of evangelical action had been discovered. It was the City Mission, in feminine form, with Working women for the immediate agents, and Ladies of education and experience for their Superintendents. Not many months passed away before it was proved that here was a power long disused in the Protestant churches, at least in its application to the sunken masses of society, and a power which would accomplish more than all the good of the Catholic sisterhood, without incurring the evils attendant upon conventualism, or professional philanthropy.

With regard to the supply of the Scriptures, it was not easy to obtain admittance into all the homes to sell Bibles, though the first woman did sell in her first year many hundred copies; but as St. Paul speaks of 'by any means gain. ing some,' so a kind and motherly woman often found an entrance for the Words of Life through the influence of her own loving deeds.

If she met with a woman ill in bed, and the children dirty, she offered to

wash them, and straighten the room, or, by other little nameless acts through which one woman can show sympathy for another, she drew the heart towards her, and then, at a fitting time, when perhaps the full tale of trouble was being poured out to a friendly ear, she found occasion to tell of the 'Burden Bearer,' and the 'Friend born for adversity.' Or, perhaps, a riotous child, the plague of the home and terror of the street, put to school and paid for by the lady, becomes, under milder influences and example, an improved character. The Bible stories and hymns, so new to the little wanderer, are repeated and sung at home; the clean-washed hands and face, insisted on by the teacher, become a pleasant habit, and then better clothes are sought after. A new want of comfort is introduced into the miserable abode—a want which despair and sin had crushed; and if, just then, the child or Biblee-woman carries in the tidings that a Lady will take their pence and save it up for clothes and bedding, the news will be hailed with joy. They can spare a penny, they say, and it soon mounts up to what will buy a sheet or under-garment, a pinafore or a frock.

These friendly calls bring the Bible-woman and her neighbor acquainted with each other, and the Christian visitor never forgets her Master's message, speaks of the forgiveness of sin, reads from the Book, and prays, and invariably ends by persuasions to the inmate to buy these good words, and have them for her own.

A mission-room is soon established in every district, and thither the people are induced to bring their pence for Clothing, at a stated hour every week. The Superintending Lady meets them, and by degrees little groups of mothers are formed, who, while sewing the garments which have been cut out for them, listen to the words of life, and find that there is really a way out of all their misery, and quarreling, and want, and dirt, and wretchedness. For them, 'a blue beyond,' a way into the heavenly, through Christ Jesus. We adventure not to number the souls saved through this mission; but God in heaven keeps a record of those who have been led to come and listen, and, listening, to receive the gospel; and every mission-room has its trophies of grace.

A class, whom no preaching could have reached, not even by the action of the best and bravest of home missionaries, is thus brought to sit, clothed, and in their right mind, at the feet of Jesus. It was a woman's idea and work to reach the woman, by indirect efforts such as we have spoken of; but it must be always borne in mind that the industrial part of the mission is second to the spiritual-it is only the means to the end, and it is only as a power wielded by truly Christain women, longing for the salvation of souls, that it becomes an influence for good over their poorer neighbors. Let us not be deluded by the appearance of a house swept and garnished,' if the Spirit of the Lord is not there. We read that seven devils can return to the civilised abode where the one dwelt in dirt and clamor.

From very old time, the Sons of God have been at work, warning and teach. ing every man, establishing schools, and organising new efforts for the promulgation of truth; but the poor Daughters of the Lord Almighty have not been banded together hitherto at least in Protestant countries-to do what they can among 'their own sort' for carying the Bible and its message to the people. This new mode of its presentation is acceptable to the poor; they are not afraid

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